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ForemWebView deep dive

This document provides an in-depth walkthrough of the features available to you after adding and initializing a ForemWebView instance in your project.

It's important to know this is a custom implementation of WKWebView and you should not implement your own WKNavigationDelegate logic. Please rely on the provided ForemWebViewDelegate for callbacks.

Navigation and Lifecycle

  1. Load a Forem instance URL
    • After the first load of a valid Forem instance the variable foremInstance will be populated with corresponding metadata
    • As soon as the foremInstance metadata is populated any attempts to navigate (programmatically or by the user) outside the Forem instance will be restricted by the ForemWebView itself
    • A simple way to get started would be to call .load("https://dev.to") on your ForemWebView instance
  2. Implement ForemWebViewDelegate for callbacks
  3. Observe changes in the view's variables:
    • userData will be updated when a user logs in/out (ForemUserData or nil if unauthenticated)
    • estimatedProgress, canGoBack, canGoForward, url, and any other WKWebView variable for state updates

Available helper functions/variables

  • load(_ urlString: String)
    • Helper method for simplicity: webView.load("https://dev.to")
  • userData
    • Instance of ForemUserData when authenticated or nil otherwise
  • foremInstance
    • ForemInstanceMetadata struct that represents the Forem Instance loaded. It will be niluntil the first page load
  • fetchUserData(completion: @escaping (ForemUserData?) -> Void)
    • Async callback to request the ForemUserData struct from the current state of the DOM
    • Instead of polling with this function we recommend you register to observe the userData variable as you'll react to changes when they become available
  • fetchUserData(completion: @escaping (ForemUserData?) -> Void)

Extension to URL

  • .isOAuthUrl -> Bool
    • Responds to whether the url is one of the supported 3rd party redirect URLs in a OAuth protocol
    • Useful if implementing WKNavigationDelegate on your own (not recommended)

Native Podcast Player & Picture in Picture video

In order for your App to take advantage of these native features via the ForemWebView you'll need to configure a few things:

  1. Make sure you enable Audio, AirPlay, and Pciture in Picture from the Background Mode capability in your Project's Target
  2. Configure the AVAudioSession category to .playback, preferrably in your AppDelegate.
    • A one liner that works for this is try? AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(.playback) although handling the error will most likely prove helpful.
  3. The ForemWebView will call .setActive(true) on the AVAudioSession shared instance when playback is initiated, so you don't need to make this call yourself.
  4. The ForemWebViewDelegate method willStartNativeVideo will be called when the native video player is ready to start playing. It's your responsibility to present this AVPlayerViewController

The podcast player will automatically take advantage of Background audio playback. If background playback is unavailable/unsupported the Podcast Player will still play the audio in your App in the foreground. However, when the App is sent to the background you'll be missing better Artwork, controls, and the playback will stop after some time.